Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:42:31 04/17/01
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On April 17, 2001 at 13:19:19, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>We are the World Champion until the ICCA new tournament will be held and another
>program win the title.
>If we do not recognize such a title and event there is no reason to make such
>event anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Sandro Necchi
The event is recognized for what it is: a nice event with a lot of randomness in
the result, but which is fine because it is the only opportunity for programmers
and computer chess businessmen to meet each other.
I personally enjoyed a lot participating in person to the WMCCC 1997 (Paris) and
the WCCC 1999 (Paderborn). I have nice memories of everybody, and for me that
was a dream come true.
But you should not assume people are so stupid that they do not understand the
low reliability of such events.
If the event was so reliable, why would the SSDF results be so interesting for
everybody? Why would testers play home tournaments?
What you are doing here is trying to disinform people about the reliability of
chess events. But it won't work. People are more and more aware that a high
number of games is necessary to evaluate the relative strength of chess
programs, and that a 7 or 9 or even 11 rounds event means close to nothing.
In the tournaments organized by the ICCA, all you can do is say that there must
be a stength difference between the bottom and the top of the final rankings.
But between, say, the 5 first programs it is impossible to say which is the
best.
20 years ago these events were significant because there were significant
differences in the strength of chess programs. That's why the "Chess" program
was reliably leading, and that's also why Richard Lang's programs have been able
to do the same in the eighties.
Nowadays the difference in playing strength is less obvious, and the reliability
of the ICCA tournaments is close to nil.
This is not a critic against the ICCA. Given the time and money constraints it
is impossible to do any better, and anyway the events are very enjoyable for the
participants.
Christophe
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